Sense-Certainty

A. Consciousness

I. Sense-Certainty (§90-110)
Hegel ascribes to our senses the ability to affirm the existence, the be-ing, of an object. Though sense-certainty is unaware of this, we can discern from the process of the senses an essential subject-object relationship in which each requires the other. The truth of an object's reality is not dependent, however, on this mediation process (§90-93).

When we inquire into what "This" (object as existent) the sense-certainty understands, we discover that the "Thises" are essentially indexicals, as illustrated by the "Here" and "Now" examples (§94-109). The universal rather than instantial understanding of being is dependent on the mediation provided by sense-certainty. Hegel appears to be claiming here that our minds do and must use this framework to build an understanding of the world.